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Decentralisation, intergovernmental coordination, and response to extreme events in Southeast Asia

Posted on 12 April 2024

New article by Professor Sarah Shair-Rosenfield

Professor Sarah Shair-Rosenfield has a new article out on the online journal Regional Studies.

The article first published on 2nd April 2024 is called Decentralisation, intergovernmental coordination, and response to extreme events in Southeast Asia.

Abstract

Despite common lessons learned during the SARS pandemic in 2003, country responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Southeast Asia have been very diverse, with many lacking coordination among government bodies. I consider how government structure and political decentralisation shape emergency response to extreme events, focusing on two of Southeast Asia’s largest decentralised countries, Indonesia and the Philippines. I explore variation in provincial-level responses and outcomes, showing that intergovernmental coordination can augment the beneficial aspects of decentralisation in world regions where human and economic costs associated with extreme events are high.